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Build shared cellular literacy so you can field questions and support patients with mechanism-based confidence, even outside your clinical scope.
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Cellular Health Essentials
A 12-week online course that teaches health through the lens of four biological domains: Structure, Energy, Communication, and Repair.
Course Dates: August 25th - November 10th, 2026
Format: 12-week Online Course - Live via Zoom & Skool Classroom
Class Time: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00pm MT
Founding Cohort Pricing: $1700* (regular tuition $3,400)
Offer Ends: August 15th, 2026
* $1700 reflects a single-payment discount. A financed option of two payments is also available. Additional optional lab fees may apply.
What This Course Is
A complete biological framework for understanding cellular health.
Cellular Health Essentials is a 12-week foundational course that teaches health through the lens of the four biological domains: Structure, Energy, Communication, and Repair.
Starting with how a healthy cell functions and progressing through how dysfunction develops, the course builds a complete framework you can apply directly to the health patterns you already encounter.
By The End
Participants can reason through health from the cellular level.
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Explain how structure, energy, communication, and repair govern cellular function, and how disruptions in each show up as patterns of dysfunction.
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Trace cause-and-effect relationships across biological processes.
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Interpret foundational lab markers as reflections of biological processes, not just numbers to optimize.
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Recognize common patterns of dysfunction across different health presentations.
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Begin applying cellular reasoning to the questions, clients, and health patterns you encounter in your own work.
Who It's For
For people working in and around health, and for curious learners who want a stronger foundation.
CHE is designed for people who want to understand how the body actually works, starting from the ground up, whatever role you bring that understanding to.
Health Coaches & Nutritionists
Strengthen your ability to reason through how diet, sleep, and lifestyle influence mitochondrial function and metabolic health.
Personal Trainers
Deepen your understanding of how movement influences cellular energy, signaling, and recovery, so you can coach with the biology behind it.
Estheticians & Skin Care Professionals
Use a cellular framework for understanding aging, oxidative stress, and repair at the tissue level.
Motivated Individuals
Evaluate health information responsibly, so you can stop reacting to trends and start reasoning from mechanism.
What This Course Is Not
Enroll Now - Founding Cohort Pricing Ends August 15th, 2026
CHE is not a certification course and does not provide medical credentialing or clinical training. It is a foundational education course in cellular biology: the reasoning framework, not a license to practice.
Note: If you would like to participate but have scheduling conflicts with one or two live sessions, recordings are made available.
Pricing: $1,700 reflects a single-payment founding cohort rate, a one-time 50% discount for this first cohort. Tuition returns to $3,400 for future cohorts.
What You'll Learn
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CHE is built to layer knowledge sequentially.
Teaching the biology of how each system works before examining how it breaks down, moving through the same four domains at the center of CHL's framework, then bringing them together.
The Cell as the Unit of Health
Health is the ongoing function of cellular processes. We introduce the four-domain framework and establish how each domain operates in everything the cell does continuously.
The Architecture That Makes Everything Possible
Structure and function are inseparable. We trace cellular architecture from the plasma membrane to the organelles within it.
When the Architecture Breaks Down
Structural integrity erodes gradually. We examine what happens when membranes lose selective integrity and dysfunction begins.
The Currency of Life
The cell runs on ATP. We trace how mitochondria convert fuel sources into usable energy and why that conversion underlies everything else the cell does.
When the Manufacturing Process Breaks Down
Metabolism is not a fixed capacity. We explore what happens when energy demands outpace the system's ability to keep up.
The Body's Messaging System
Cells do not act in isolation. We trace how cells send, receive, and respond to signals that keep trillions of cells coordinated.
When the Signals Get Crossed
Signaling systems are designed to self-correct. We examine what happens when feedback loops lose calibration.
The Cell That Cleans Itself
Cellular damage is a normal byproduct of cellular activity. We introduce cleanup and repair systems that keep pace with everyday wear.
When the Cleanup System Falls Behind
As metabolic load increases and repair capacity naturally declines, the gap between damage and repair begins to grow.
Integration: Cross-Domain Synthesis
The four domains are four lenses trained on the same system. We trace how disruption in one domain moves through the others.
Final Synthesis & Application
We close by returning to the case study with the full framework in place and practicing how to apply that reasoning to your own work.
Course Faculty
Meet Your Facilitators
Learn from leaders working at the intersection of cellular science, longevity medicine, and healthcare education.
Lead Facilitator
Courtney Van Bussum
A biomedical engineer turned healthcare business leader, Courtney is passionate about translating the science of cellular health into practical tools for clinicians and consumers.
Guest Lecturer
Elizabeth Yurth, MD
Dr. Yurth is a double board-certified physician and co-founder of the Boulder Longevity Institute, with more than 30 years of clinical experience.
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